AlimOzturk Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, AlimOzturk said: Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. Palm oil companies or beef producers probably started it ☹️ (I’m not even joking). Edit: Seems the NGO’s are getting fingers pointed at them... Edited August 21, 2019 by Pans Jambo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Govt declares intention to clear the forest for mining and logging. Relaxes environmental laws. Forest gets cut down and burned at record pace. Government blames NGOs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I hope Brazil becomes a sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Internet Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Probably because most people now are wondering what a rainforest is and why amazon are selling them. An 84% increase on last year apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor jambo Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 a poor developing country needs land to raise its GDP by exporting. MOst of its land is covered by rainforest the wealthy are not willing to pay to protect. growing population needs more food and money. It was utterly inevitable. To develop Brazil needs its resources liquidated- as the UK and most of Europe did by deforestation/mining/ oil extraction and now fracking. Brazil are merely playing catchup with us- we hacked down all our ancient forests centuries ago to produce farm land, emptied our seas and laid waste to our environment- causing extinction to many of our own species, but are now asking Brazilians to stay in poverty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 10 hours ago, AlimOzturk said: Hardly any mainstream media news on this. Seems the damage these are causing is fairly horrific. Lungs of the planet being destroyed and yet no outcry. It featured in a Sky News Hotspots report just last week and Sky News has been reporting on the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest for the last few years now as well. One of the most dangerous places on earth for a journalist to go, due to so many who end up dead or missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor jambo Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 It has been pretty widely reported by the BBC and MSN too. It has not been ignored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 1 hour ago, doctor jambo said: a poor developing country needs land to raise its GDP by exporting. MOst of its land is covered by rainforest the wealthy are not willing to pay to protect. growing population needs more food and money. It was utterly inevitable. To develop Brazil needs its resources liquidated- as the UK and most of Europe did by deforestation/mining/ oil extraction and now fracking. Brazil are merely playing catchup with us- we hacked down all our ancient forests centuries ago to produce farm land, emptied our seas and laid waste to our environment- causing extinction to many of our own species, but are now asking Brazilians to stay in poverty? Yeah agreed. Its like us yelling developing countries not to burn fossil fuels when we’ve been doing it for 200 years. It’s why there’s just no saving the planet imo. It’s ****ed. We’re ****ed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Maybe Trump will swoop in and buy it in his big game of planet monopoly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All roads lead to Gorgie Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 With climate change much of Brazil will become an arid desert anyway. The forest itself causes the warm damp climate, when that goes then rain cloud formation will stop. The world is being run by short term thinking idiots right now and Brazil seems to have one of the biggest idiots in charge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor jambo Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 1 hour ago, jack D and coke said: Yeah agreed. Its like us yelling developing countries not to burn fossil fuels when we’ve been doing it for 200 years. It’s why there’s just no saving the planet imo. It’s ****ed. We’re ****ed. Quite, we hacked down the ancient oaks/yews/pines and gored the crap out our country to fuel our "development" . Half our country has miles of coal mines beneath the surface. We have near emptied the north sea and are now fracking what we can to keep things going, then screaming at developing countries not to do the same. Now we are pretty balanced and our population explosion is over in Europe, all the birth drivers are in Asia and Africa where they now need to do what we did, and we are trying to stop them doing it. The difficulty is that until they are fully developed their birth rates will remain high, yet we are trying to trap them as developing and poor. Its either technology will dig us out this, or it wont. And if it doesn't we are in a real bind We need MASSIVE carbon capture investment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All roads lead to Gorgie Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 (edited) As well as industrial carbon capture the world has to plant billions of trees and protect peatland and tundra which naturally captures carbon. If the rain forest is being lost the rest of the world has to make up for the loss by planting more. Edited August 22, 2019 by All roads lead to Gorgie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebo Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Someone should wheel Cristo Redentor into the middle of it, and you’ll have a celebrity-driven social media bandwagon in no time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 On 22/08/2019 at 12:26, All roads lead to Gorgie said: As well as industrial carbon capture the world has to plant billions of trees and protect peatland and tundra which naturally captures carbon. If the rain forest is being lost the rest of the world has to make up for the loss by planting more. Good post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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